Leisure Moments Quotes

#1. I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

Vitruvius

#2. Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

James Ellis

#3. People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

Madame Roland

#4. Thorndyke never forgets a likely case. He is sort of a medico-legal camel. He gulps down the raw facts from the newspapers or elsewhere, and then, in his leisure moments, he calmly regurgitates them and has a quiet chew at them.

R. Austin Freeman

#5. The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through
and proud of it.

Patricia Cori

#7. Expect the universe to support your dream. It will.

Julia Cameron

#8. One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

Joshua Foer

#9. I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

Natascha McElhone

#10. There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries.

Osama Bin Laden

#12. Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.

Havelock Ellis

#13. I'm not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!

Vince Vaughn

#14. Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. And they know I didn't hold expectations for them like I do for myself. But I also tell them I'm not going to lower the expectations I do have for them because we're playing Division II.

Cat Osterman